... absurdity of such a statement. Mr. Walsh w’ould have us believe that close upon 150,000 unnecessary slackers have gone down the mines. We believe the number considerably nearer 500 than 3,000. But the exaggeration saved the Compulsionists and secured the ...

... engaged in necessary occupations were, according to the 1911 census, as under: Agriculture Engineering, metals, &c Transport Mining Textiles Government and municipal and sanitary engineers 1,140,000 1,477,000 1.399.000 1,049,000 571.U00 248,000 102.000 5 ...

... shut > ' . .u, ■ , , . , . i .i-ii. i- . , ;,,i . „..,i .k.-.iv ihemselves when they return to the field, the factory, the mine, and ihe and pirt on felt slippers when blithely treading the straight path, nobody - , Ie , t , • li .•• u-;,cu workshop. ...

... future of the world. After the war, are Britons and Germans go back in the old way to their respective mills and factories and mines, and bow themselves again the thankless toil of providing luxuries for their masters, and hok) themselves ready to out again ...

... from men who do not keep good time. Last week attempt was made both secure general comb-out of men who have entered the mines during the past year, and to apply the principle of cancelling urtlfiieius On the ground of absenteeism to miners. Neither ...

... their dooms funds, which now stand at . . . £lBO,OOO. It a good record, but look forward to the time when As for the mines, our chief anxiety to understand exactly what was there wUI one Union for the engineering and industry the quarrel between ...

... and feaßy get to work. One might imagine that befcrw his elevation Cabinet rank the Right Honourable Memb* for the Steal and Mines. Smelting Trades had not considered problem demobilisation and, unfortunately, one might right. ♦ One of the most interesting ...

... he would pom automatically out of the control of the N.U.R. conscription of the meanest kind. Fir* you ovale vacancies in mining and under that of the union of his craft. With this scheme there should and engineering by removing into the Army the men ...

... die question, are on the point taking drastic action for the maintenance of the pledges given. Other industries, notably the mines, are in a state of profound unrest, and the example of Russia has created strong undercurrent revolutionary feeling. The Government ...

... profiteering, and industrial conscription. Secondly, the Govern* moot is attempting a new comb-out the railways and in the mines. The statement in the Press that N.U.R. has agreed to this is, we are informed, false. They have not agreed, and vigorous protests ...

... been saying that it would be easy to comb at least 100,000 miners out of the mines. The Ministry of Munitions, on the other hand, states that, in view of the shortage of mine labour, every economy in the consumption of coal must be exercised. We do not ...

... if had not been that the men had insisted on sending down their own examiners, who declared the mine unsafe. I do not find any confidence reposed in the mine inspectors appointed the Government. There is a feeling that they are on the employers' side. 1 ...